Social media had plenty of fun after Tottenham Hotspur and France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris almost swallowed a big dragonfly during the World Cup quarter-final against Uruguay.

The France captain had enough on his plate with the pressure of the big match at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Russia but there was more to come as after 17 minutes of the encounter a big dragonfly flew straight into his mouth.

Realising what had happened just too late, Lloris suddenly reacted and spat out the insect on to the pitch as the match action continued at the other end of the field.

Lloris then went on to make an amazing full-length save before half-time that could be a contender for save of the tournament after Raphaël Varane put France into the lead.

However football fans on social media were all still having great fun with the dragonfly incident and soon started posting videos, photos and jokes about it.

Here are just some of the tweets that flooded across social media, with someone even starting a Twitter account for the bug: